Biographical note

Dr. JingTao Yao is an associate professor of Computer Science at the University of Regina. He taught in the Department of Information Systems at the Massey University, New Zealand, the Department of Information Systems at the National University of Singapore, Singapore,and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Xi'an Jiaotong University, China. He received his Ph.D. degree at the National University of Singapore. He did a B.Eng. degree and an M.Sc. degree at Xi'an Jiaotong University. His research interests include softcomputing, data mining, forecasting, neural networks, computational finance, electronic commerce, Web intelligence, and Web-based support systems.